The Sofa

I have been thinking a lot about a post by Searching for answers called "Opportunity Costs."

What is the cost of our opportunites? I ask this as a person who loves her job, but who has too much job. It is ironic that I am asking my students to think about place and I never go anyplace. Except to and from work of course.

Today, for instance -- apart from a couple trips to the backyard with the dogs, I sat on the sofa with a laptop for the whole day. And when I say the whole day -- I genuinely mean since 7:30 am till now, 11:44 p.m. I even ate dinner while working today. And I made someone else make it for me!

Don't get me wrong. I love what I do. And I love reading student work. But, the way the budget has been working in the CSU in the last few years, there is more and more work and fewer and fewer bodies to do it. It's reaching frightening proportions.

I want to be a person who invests in her community. I want to notice the trees outside my windows. I want to spend time with my family. And I want to work with my students. Why must balance among good things be so hard to come by?

Opportunity costs, indeed.